Contents
one
Five Feelings for Orpheus
Orpheus Plays the Bronx
Persephone’s Celestial Sphere
How People Disappear
For My Mother in Lieu of Mourning
Suture
Probably Eros
Remainder’s Edge
Even This
two
Refrain
Pear Tree, Bartlett, Quotations
At Weep
Things Waiting to Be Dangerous
Boy, Allegorically Deployed
Brightness Falls
Mappa Mundi
Cloud Chamber
Waterfront
You Also, Nightingale
three
Topograph
Some Kind of Osiris
Naturalism
Kinds of Camouflage
Respite
Itinerary
four
Homeric Interim
Turandot
Narcissus to Echo
Snowdrops and Summer Snowflakes, Drooping
Eve’s Awakening
The Tendency of Dropped Objects to Fall
Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
Self-Portrait in the New World Order
Dust
My Desert
While the Temptations Are Singing “I Wish It Would Rain”
five
Come This Far
Thieves Like Us
These Are the Things
A Handful of Sand
The Navigators
With the Wind Blowing Through It
Light Years
Angles of Vision
Somewhere Outside of Eden
Hesitation Theory
One of the Lesser Epics
You, Therefore
Acknowledgments